ACCESS FOOTAGE

Description:

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows:
a. Hotel Statler dining room with diners and waiters - menu - ‘Hotel Statler, A La Carte.’
“The big hotel kitchen would delight the housewife’s heart. Here culinary capability reaches its zenith and cleanliness is ‘on every hand.’”
Hotel cooks and waiters - food preparation - kitchen worker handles chickens - cook makes sandwiches.
“The chef and his aides are a jolly crew.”
Hotel chef and his staff.
“Dainty salads that are a delight and are good to look upon.”
“Luscious viands fit for a King.”
Cake with basket of flowers - large roast - chef inspects pastry trays.
“All work is carefully inspected by the chef.”
Chef escorts member of camera crew.
“Big bake ovens where hot rolls are baked by the bushel.”
Rolls are raked out of hotel kitchen ovens into boxes.
“The butcher shop -- headquarters for planked steaks and tenderloins.”
Hotel butcher shop with workers cooking meat and carving chicken.
“Discipline in the kitchen is very efficient, even the cream is ‘whipped’ by machinery.”
Cream whipping machine and coffee maker.
“The ice cream chef is an artist whose fame tickles the palate, rearing artistic shapes in ices and creams.”
“Waiters checking individual orders.”
Hotel dish-washers at work - views of dining room and guests. [1916]
b. Views of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Automobile and streetcar traffic.
“The main streets running north and south are numbered, while those running east and west were formerly named after trees and shrubs indigenous to the community. Thus we have Chestnut Street (looking west from 11th Street).”
Hanscom’s Restaurant.
“The U.S. Post Office at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets. The building is an excellent example of Romanesque architecture, was more than 10 years in building and cost $8,000,000.”
Pedestrian traffic.
“Statue of George Washington in front of Independence Hall.”
“Belleview-Stratford Hotel.”
Pumping station, Schuylkill River, with low dam across Schuylkill River.
“Washington Monument at the Green Street entrance to Fairmont Park. Erected in 1396 by the Pennsylvania Society of Cincinnati and unveiled by President McKinley in May 1897.”
Sign, ‘Erected by the Washington Monument Association of the First School District of Pennsylvania, July 4, 1869.’
“Marguerite Tower and old Fairmount Water Works now converted into an aquarium.”
Seals feeding - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
“Feeding the pigeons on the City Hall Plaza.”
Horse-drawn wagon traffic.
“Looking up at the City Hall tower from the City Hall courtyard.”
“The Metropolitan Opera House.”
“A view on Broad Street showing the Philadelphia system of parking automobiles.”
Policeman directs traffic. [1915]